While fentanyl and fentanyl overdose deaths are dominating headlines, "meth is still king." Meth is still king when it comes to the threats facing Montanans.
It must be nice to be a wealthy, white, liberal elite. When YOU call for the Southern Border to be secured from illegal aliens, you get called a racist and a xenophobe- yes, even if you're a Native American whose reservation in Montana is being overwhelmed by Mexican drug cartel fentanyl.
The Attorneys General demand our President take swift action in response to the record-breaking nationwide increase of overdose deaths related to the drug.
August has seen an average of one overdose per day in the Billings area, with 24 reported. 18 doses of the antidote naloxone were administered this month.
Not one reference to our Southern Border. Not one reference to the Mexican drug cartels. How do you do an entire piece on the drug epidemic that is causing an emergency on the Blackfeet Reservation and not mention where the fentanyl is coming from?
Fentanyl dealers "got pulled over and they decided to hide the evidence by eating all the fentanyl pills. Everybody coded and they had to be revived with Narcan. "
State officials said this week that the alarming increase of fentanyl-related fatalities in Montana that occurred in 2020 does not appear to be slowing down.
We've already confirmed that Mexican drug cartel members are or recently have been in our jails here in Montana. We've also told you that MS-13 operatives, and the big city gangbangers are all moving into Montana. But what about the pill pushers?